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Polyaromatic hydrocarbons are commonly formed during incomplete combustion under improper conditions. They spread through the environment bound to flying ash without significant natural decomposition, and some of them are proven carcinogens. For treatm...

Cerium dioxide is one of the oxides formed of rare earth elements. It has remarkable physical and chemical properties, particularly the ability to cleave many chemical bonds in hazardous and biologically active substances. This ability is related to th...

The RSC Advances journal (Royal Society of Chemistry) published recently an article describing the decomposition of toxic organophosphates with the aid of functionalized bead cellulose. In this paper, the team lead by Prof. Janos (Faculty of Environmen...

Perhaps all floodplains in Central Europe are contaminated by elements imprecisely but aptly called “heavy metals“. This contamination mostly results from past human activities, commonly during past centuries. The “heavy metals” can be considered almos...

Towards the end of World War II, strategic industrial sites were bombed by the Allies. In our region, these included important railway junctions (Ústí nad Labem, Karlovy Vary, Chomutov) or industrial plants (the chemical complex Záluží near Litvínov). ...

At which sites is it reasonable to grow the energy crop Giant Miscanthus? Under what conditions is the crop able to support important soil microorganisms? Those are two questions that we tried to answer in the very first pot experiments prepared at the...

Metallic glasses (predominantly composed of metals, therefore, also known as amorphous metals), represent possibly an unexpected class of glasses, which can be applied, for example, as bio-compatible materials (implants, surgical tools…), in biosensing...

That is the wrong question, each serves a different purpose. Though not always. Ing. Mazanec of the Military Research Institute in Brno compared different types of the decontamination agents used by NATO armies alongside TiO2 and CeO2 prepared at the F...

Urban greenery is able to maximize the utilization of incoming solar energy to alleviate temperature extremes in the city. On hot summer days, when the temperature on the sunlit concrete pavement rises to 50 ° C, the tree can maintain the temperature a...